Was Sweden right about Covid all along?

Correct. Sweden's strategy during the first 3 waves was largely a failure and human tragedy with way too many people ending up dead or in severe conditions in hospitals, until vaccines arrived. But for some reason, most Swedes are unable or unwilling to acknowledge this level of suffering that was brought onto the population (particularly onto older people and other vulnerable groups) and how the public was systematically mislead about the virus by the official channels, instead focusing on the more speculative suffering that they believe was avoided by abstaining from harder restrictions.

I think the narrative that the UK people don't trust the government and in Sweden people do is not really true. Lockdowns is one thing but when time came for vaccination, the UK didn't have vaccine mandates and yet managed to have 90% vaccination rate which is similar to Sweden (depending how you count).

It seems that the UK could have followed Sweden's model with respect to lockdowns and would have achieved comparable results of adherence as well.